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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/world/europe/europe-hospitals-covid.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/world/europe/europe-hospitals-covid.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/22\/world\/europe\/europe-hospitals-covid.html","crawl_time":1772805375,"first_indexed_time":1603388617,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/interactive\/2020\/10\/22\/world\/europe\/europe-hospitals-covid.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Where Europe’s Second Wave of Covid-19 Is Filling Up Hospitals - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["People across much of Europe — including France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those in the United States."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, New York Times database of cases\nLONDON — Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital. The numbers of Covid-19 patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate.\nAs new cases of the virus began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were\ninitially spared\nthe mass influx of patients they weathered earlier this spring.\nSome suggested\nthat the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded.\nBut a second wave of serious illness is here,\nnew data\nreleased on Thursday shows, making it clear that the pandemic is still dangerous and that adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year.\nWhere People Are Sick From the Coronavirus\nCountry\nPatients in hospital per 100,000\nSpring peak\n% of spring peak\nCzech Republic\n35\n4\n882%\nSpain\n29\nBelgium\n22\n50\n43%\nBulgaria\n21\n6\n381%\nPoland\n21\n9\n230%\nHungary\n18\n7\n249%\nFrance\n16\n48\n34%\n21 European countries\n14\n31\n45%\nItaly\n13\n55\n24%\nSlovenia\n13\n6\n226%\nCroatia\n12\n9\n136%\nSlovakia\n12\n4\n285%\nUnited States\n11\n18\n61%\nPortugal\n11\n13\n83%\nUnited Kingdom\n10\n30\n33%\nAustria\n8\n12\n68%\nIreland\n6\n18\n31%\nLuxembourg\n5\n35\n15%\nLatvia\n4\n2\n163%\nEstonia\n3\n12\n23%\nDenmark\n2\n9\n23%\nFinland\n1\n4\n23%\nNorway\n1\n6\n10%\nIceland\n0.3\n12\n2%\nSource:\nEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control\n. Hospital data for Europe includes 21 countries that report daily hospital occupancy data to the ECDC. Germany, the Netherlands and others are omitted. Spring peak is the highest value from March and April, except for Hungary where data collection began in May. Current patients in hospitals reflect the most recent available data.\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the continent is still less than half of the peak in March and April, but it is rising steadily each week, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. People across much of Europe — including larger countries like France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those\nin the United States\n.\nBruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the center, said he was concerned that some of the worst-hit countries now — including the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria — were not as affected this spring, and may not have expanded their hospital capacity or intensive care units.\n“The signals were all there in September,” said Mr. Ciancio. “At this point it’s very important that all member states prepare their hospitals to deal with the increase in demand that is coming.”\nHospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. But infection figures depend heavily on each country’s testing capacity, while seriously ill people tend to enter hospitals whether they have been tested for the virus or not.\nEurope’s current wave of infection is due in part to the relative normalcy it experienced this summer. Unlike the United States, where the epidemic rose to a second peak in July and a\nthird peak this month\n, travelers\nmoved around Europe\n, college students\nreturned to campus\nand many large gatherings resumed, all while the virus kept spreading.\nNow hospitals are scrambling to prepare for an onrush of Covid-19 patients, at a time when bed and intensive care capacity will already be under strain during the winter flu season.\nEurope’s Second Wave\nHospitalized Covid-19 patients per 100,000 people\nFeb.\nMarch\nApril\nMay\nJune\nJuly\nAug.\nSept.\nOct.\n10\n20\n30\n40\n50\nAustria\nBelgium\nBulgaria\nCroatia\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nEstonia\nFinland\nFrance\nHungary\nIceland\nIreland\nItaly\nLatvia\nLuxembourg\nNorway\nPoland\nPortugal\nSlovakia\nSlovenia\nUnited Kingdom\nIn Poland, the government converted the country’s largest stadium into a\ntemporary field hospital\nwith room for 500 patients. Hospitals in France, especially in the Paris area, have started to postpone non-emergency surgeries, while others have called back staff on leave. More than one-fifth of Spain’s intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, and in Madrid, that figure is closer to 40 percent.\nAnd in the Czech Republic — where the current hospitalization rate surpasses the worst period in Britain — physicians are worried about a shortage of staff. “In some regions, about 10 percent of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine,” said Petr Smejkal, the chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the\nInstitute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine\nin Prague.\nMr. Smejkal said the country also lacks specialty workers like respiratory therapists, and that most nurses are not trained to operate ventilators. “I am most worried about personnel, and keeping a safe ratio of doctors to patients and nurses to patients,” he added.\nThere is hope that no place will experience the\nlevel of death\nthat Bergamo, Italy, New York City and Madrid suffered this spring. How the virus spreads is better understood now, and treatments have improved, giving sick people a\nbetter chance of survival\n. Testing has expanded across Europe, allowing countries to identify outbreaks earlier, when they are easier to contain.\nBut it is unclear how successful those control measures will be, or if\npolitical resistance\nand\ncollective exhaustion\nover new restrictions will make it harder to get the virus under control for a second time.\nDeaths in most of Europe remain at a fraction of the levels seen in the spring. But they have ticked slowly upwards over the last several weeks, and they tend to lag hospitalizations by about a month. Experts say additional increases in deaths are likely over the next couple of weeks.\nCovid-19 deaths are slowly ticking back up\nDeaths per one million people over the last 14 days\nAlbania\nMarch 1\nOct. 21\nLast two\nweeks\nAustria\nBelarus\nBelgium\nBosnia and Herzegovina\nBulgaria\nCroatia\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nEstonia\nFinland\nFrance\nGermany\nGreece\nHungary\nIreland\nItaly\nKosovo\nLatvia\nLithuania\nMoldova\nNetherlands\nNorth Macedonia\nNorway\nPoland\nPortugal\nRomania\nSerbia\nSlovakia\nSlovenia\nSpain\nSweden\nSwitzerland\nU.K.\nUkraine\nSource: The New York Times. Shows countries with at least 1 million people.","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/22\/world\/europe\/europe-hospitals-covid.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/22\/world\/europe\/europe-hospitals-covid.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Europe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/world\/europe)\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252Finteractive%252F2020%252F10%252F22%252Fworld%252Feurope%252Feurope-hospitals-covid.html&asset=masthead)\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\n[Europe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/world\/europe)\\|Where Europe’s Second Wave Is Filling Up Hospitals\n\nhttps:\/\/nyti.ms\/3jnbomn\n\n- Share full article\n- 0\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/22\/world\/europe\/europe-hospitals-covid.html#after-top)\n\n# Where Europe’s Second Wave Is Filling Up Hospitals\nBy [Allison McCann](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/allison-mccann) and [Lauren Leatherby](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/lauren-leatherby)Oct. 22, 2020\n\n- Share full article\n- 0\n\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\nCases per 100,000\n\nin the last 14 days\n\n100\n\n200\n\n400\n\n800\n\nBelgium has postponed\n\nall non-essential hospital\n\nwork to deal with the influx\n\nof new Covid-19 patients.\n\nFinland\n\nNorway\n\nEstonia\n\nSweden\n\nBelarus\n\nIreland\n\nU.K.\n\nPoland\n\nGermany\n\nUkraine\n\nHungary\n\nFrance\n\nRomania\n\nItaly\n\nSerbia\n\nSpain\n\nGreece\n\nAbout a fifth of\n\nSpain’s ICU beds are\n\nalready occupied by\n\nCovid-19 patients.\n\nCases are rising faster in\n\nthe Czech Republic than\n\nanywhere else in Europe.\n\nPhysicians there fear a\n\nshortage of medical staff.\n\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\nBelgium has postponed\n\nall non-essential hospital\n\nwork to deal with the influx\n\nof new Covid-19 patients.\n\nCases per 100,000\n\nin the last 14 days\n\n100\n\n200\n\n400\n\n800\n\nFinland\n\nNorway\n\nEstonia\n\nSweden\n\nLatvia\n\nLithuania\n\nDenmark\n\nBelarus\n\nIreland\n\nU.K.\n\nPoland\n\nGermany\n\nUkraine\n\nHungary\n\nFrance\n\nRomania\n\nCroatia\n\nItaly\n\nSerbia\n\nBulgaria\n\nSpain\n\nGreece\n\nPortugal\n\nAbout a fifth of\n\nSpain’s ICU beds are\n\nalready occupied by\n\nCovid-19 patients.\n\nCases are rising faster in\n\nthe Czech Republic than\n\nanywhere else in Europe.\n\nPhysicians there fear a\n\nshortage of medical staff.\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/2020\/10\/16\/europe-hospitals\/6a812e340a0f29d986bb04ae4c450d04b3d5329d\/top-map-900.png)\n\nCases per 100,000\n\nin the last 14 days\n\nBelgium has postponed\n\nall non-essential hospital\n\nwork to deal with the influx\n\nof new Covid-19 patients.\n\n100\n\n200\n\n400\n\n800\n\nFinland\n\nNorway\n\nEstonia\n\nSweden\n\nLatvia\n\nLithuania\n\nDenmark\n\nBelarus\n\nIreland\n\nU.K.\n\nPoland\n\nCases are rising faster in\n\nthe Czech Republic than\n\nanywhere else in Europe.\n\nPhysicians there fear a\n\nshortage of medical staff.\n\nGermany\n\nUkraine\n\nHungary\n\nFrance\n\nRomania\n\nCroatia\n\nItaly\n\nSerbia\n\nBulgaria\n\nAbout a fifth of\n\nSpain’s ICU beds are\n\nalready occupied by\n\nCovid-19 patients.\n\nSpain\n\nGreece\n\nPortugal\n\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\nBelgium has postponed\n\nall non-essential hospital\n\nwork to deal with the influx\n\nof new Covid-19 patients.\n\nCases per 100,000\n\nin the last 14 days\n\n100\n\n200\n\n400\n\n800\n\nFinland\n\nNorway\n\nEstonia\n\nSweden\n\nLatvia\n\nLithuania\n\nDenmark\n\nBelarus\n\nIreland\n\nU.K.\n\nNetherlands\n\nPoland\n\nGermany\n\nCases are rising faster in\n\nthe Czech Republic than\n\nanywhere else in Europe.\n\nPhysicians there fear a\n\nshortage of medical staff.\n\nUkraine\n\nBelgium\n\nCzech\n\nrepublic\n\nAustria\n\nFrance\n\nHungary\n\nRomania\n\nSwitzerland\n\nCroatia\n\nItaly\n\nSerbia\n\nBosnia &\n\nHerzegovina\n\nBulgaria\n\nAbout a fifth of\n\nSpain’s ICU beds are\n\nalready occupied by\n\nCovid-19 patients.\n\nSpain\n\nGreece\n\nPortugal\n\nSource: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, New York Times database of cases\n\nLONDON — Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital. The numbers of Covid-19 patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate.\n\nAs new cases of the virus began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were [initially spared](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/24\/world\/europe\/covid-europe-hospitals-lockdowns.html) the mass influx of patients they weathered earlier this spring. [Some suggested](https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/8\/18\/mutated-coronavirus-may-be-less-deadly-expert-suggests) that the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded.\n\nBut a second wave of serious illness is here, [new data](https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19) released on Thursday shows, making it clear that the pandemic is still dangerous and that adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year.\n\n### Where People Are Sick From the Coronavirus\n| **Country** | **Patients in hospital per 100,000** | **Spring peak** | **% of spring peak** |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Czech Republic | 35 | 4 | 882% |\n| Spain | 29 |   |   |\n| Belgium | 22 | 50 | 43% |\n| Bulgaria | 21 | 6 | 381% |\n| Poland | 21 | 9 | 230% |\n| Hungary | 18 | 7 | 249% |\n| France | 16 | 48 | 34% |\n| 21 European countries | 14 | 31 | 45% |\n| Italy | 13 | 55 | 24% |\n| Slovenia | 13 | 6 | 226% |\n| Croatia | 12 | 9 | 136% |\n| Slovakia | 12 | 4 | 285% |\n| United States | 11 | 18 | 61% |\n| Portugal | 11 | 13 | 83% |\n| United Kingdom | 10 | 30 | 33% |\n| Austria | 8 | 12 | 68% |\n| Ireland | 6 | 18 | 31% |\n| Luxembourg | 5 | 35 | 15% |\n| Latvia | 4 | 2 | 163% |\n| Estonia | 3 | 12 | 23% |\n| Denmark | 2 | 9 | 23% |\n| Finland | 1 | 4 | 23% |\n| Norway | 1 | 6 | 10% |\n| Iceland | 0\\.3 | 12 | 2% |\n\nSource: [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control](https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19). Hospital data for Europe includes 21 countries that report daily hospital occupancy data to the ECDC. Germany, the Netherlands and others are omitted. Spring peak is the highest value from March and April, except for Hungary where data collection began in May. Current patients in hospitals reflect the most recent available data.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the continent is still less than half of the peak in March and April, but it is rising steadily each week, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. People across much of Europe — including larger countries like France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those [in the United States](https:\/\/covidtracking.com\/data\/charts\/us-currently-hospitalized).\n\nBruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the center, said he was concerned that some of the worst-hit countries now — including the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria — were not as affected this spring, and may not have expanded their hospital capacity or intensive care units.\n\n“The signals were all there in September,” said Mr. Ciancio. “At this point it’s very important that all member states prepare their hospitals to deal with the increase in demand that is coming.”\n\nHospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. But infection figures depend heavily on each country’s testing capacity, while seriously ill people tend to enter hospitals whether they have been tested for the virus or not.\n\nEurope’s current wave of infection is due in part to the relative normalcy it experienced this summer. Unlike the United States, where the epidemic rose to a second peak in July and a [third peak this month](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/15\/us\/coronavirus-cases-us-surge.html), travelers [moved around Europe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/09\/world\/europe\/eu-coronavirus-travel-rules.html), college students [returned to campus](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/06\/world\/europe\/virus-UK-universities.html) and many large gatherings resumed, all while the virus kept spreading.\n\nNow hospitals are scrambling to prepare for an onrush of Covid-19 patients, at a time when bed and intensive care capacity will already be under strain during the winter flu season.\n\n### Europe’s Second Wave\n#### Hospitalized Covid-19 patients per 100,000 people\nFeb.\n\nMarch\n\nApril\n\nMay\n\nJune\n\nJuly\n\nAug.\n\nSept.\n\nOct.\n\n10\n\n20\n\n30\n\n40\n\n50\n\nAustria\n\nBelgium\n\nBulgaria\n\nCroatia\n\nCzech Republic\n\nDenmark\n\nEstonia\n\nFinland\n\nFrance\n\nHungary\n\nIceland\n\nIreland\n\nItaly\n\nLatvia\n\nLuxembourg\n\nNorway\n\nPoland\n\nPortugal\n\nSlovakia\n\nSlovenia\n\nUnited Kingdom\n\nSource: [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control](https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19)\n\nIn Poland, the government converted the country’s largest stadium into a [temporary field hospital](https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/10\/19\/poland-will-convert-warsaw-stadium-into-temporary-covid-19-hospital) with room for 500 patients. Hospitals in France, especially in the Paris area, have started to postpone non-emergency surgeries, while others have called back staff on leave. More than one-fifth of Spain’s intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, and in Madrid, that figure is closer to 40 percent.\n\nAnd in the Czech Republic — where the current hospitalization rate surpasses the worst period in Britain — physicians are worried about a shortage of staff. “In some regions, about 10 percent of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine,” said Petr Smejkal, the chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the [Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine](https:\/\/www.ikem.cz\/en\/) in Prague.\n\nMr. Smejkal said the country also lacks specialty workers like respiratory therapists, and that most nurses are not trained to operate ventilators. “I am most worried about personnel, and keeping a safe ratio of doctors to patients and nurses to patients,” he added.\n\nThere is hope that no place will experience the [level of death](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/06\/10\/world\/coronavirus-history.html) that Bergamo, Italy, New York City and Madrid suffered this spring. How the virus spreads is better understood now, and treatments have improved, giving sick people a [better chance of survival](https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/10\/20\/925441975\/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates). Testing has expanded across Europe, allowing countries to identify outbreaks earlier, when they are easier to contain.\n\nBut it is unclear how successful those control measures will be, or if [political resistance](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/15\/world\/europe\/uk-coronavirus-brexit-boris-johnson.html) and [collective exhaustion](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/17\/us\/coronavirus-pandemic-fatigue.html) over new restrictions will make it harder to get the virus under control for a second time.\n\nDeaths in most of Europe remain at a fraction of the levels seen in the spring. But they have ticked slowly upwards over the last several weeks, and they tend to lag hospitalizations by about a month. Experts say additional increases in deaths are likely over the next couple of weeks.\n\n### Covid-19 deaths are slowly ticking back up\n#### Deaths per one million people over the last 14 days\nAlbania\n\nMarch 1\n\nOct. 21\n\nLast two\n\nweeks\n\nAustria\n\nBelarus\n\nBelgium\n\nBosnia and Herzegovina\n\nBulgaria\n\nCroatia\n\nCzech Republic\n\nDenmark\n\nEstonia\n\nFinland\n\nFrance\n\nGermany\n\nGreece\n\nHungary\n\nIreland\n\nItaly\n\nKosovo\n\nLatvia\n\nLithuania\n\nMoldova\n\nNetherlands\n\nNorth Macedonia\n\nNorway\n\nPoland\n\nPortugal\n\nRomania\n\nSerbia\n\nSlovakia\n\nSlovenia\n\nSpain\n\nSweden\n\nSwitzerland\n\nU.K.\n\nUkraine\n\nSource: The New York Times. Shows countries with at least 1 million people.\n\nMap administrative boundaries: EuroGeographics, UN–FAO, Turkstat, Kartverket. Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Statistics Portugal. OS data: Crown, copyright and database right 2020. Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.\n\nAdditional reporting by Tolek Magdziarz from Warsaw, Constant Méheut from Paris and Raphael Minder from Madrid.\n\nAdd a comment\n\n- Share full article\n- 0\n\n## Related Content\n### [More in Europe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/world\/europe)\n- [The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/05\/arts\/design\/denmark-women-statues-knitting.html)\n  \n  ![“Venus With the Apple” in Enghave Park in Copenhagen. 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The numbers of Covid-19 patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate.\n\nAs new cases of the virus began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were [initially spared](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/24\/world\/europe\/covid-europe-hospitals-lockdowns.html) the mass influx of patients they weathered earlier this spring. [Some suggested](https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/8\/18\/mutated-coronavirus-may-be-less-deadly-expert-suggests) that the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded.\n\nBut a second wave of serious illness is here, [new data](https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19) released on Thursday shows, making it clear that the pandemic is still dangerous and that adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year.\n\n### Where People Are Sick From the Coronavirus\n| **Country** | **Patients in hospital per 100,000** | **Spring peak** | **% of spring peak** |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Czech Republic | 35 | 4 | 882% |\n| Spain | 29 |   |   |\n| Belgium | 22 | 50 | 43% |\n| Bulgaria | 21 | 6 | 381% |\n| Poland | 21 | 9 | 230% |\n| Hungary | 18 | 7 | 249% |\n| France | 16 | 48 | 34% |\n| 21 European countries | 14 | 31 | 45% |\n| Italy | 13 | 55 | 24% |\n| Slovenia | 13 | 6 | 226% |\n| Croatia | 12 | 9 | 136% |\n| Slovakia | 12 | 4 | 285% |\n| United States | 11 | 18 | 61% |\n| Portugal | 11 | 13 | 83% |\n| United Kingdom | 10 | 30 | 33% |\n| Austria | 8 | 12 | 68% |\n| Ireland | 6 | 18 | 31% |\n| Luxembourg | 5 | 35 | 15% |\n| Latvia | 4 | 2 | 163% |\n| Estonia | 3 | 12 | 23% |\n| Denmark | 2 | 9 | 23% |\n| Finland | 1 | 4 | 23% |\n| Norway | 1 | 6 | 10% |\n| Iceland | 0\\.3 | 12 | 2% |\n\nSource: [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control](https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19). Hospital data for Europe includes 21 countries that report daily hospital occupancy data to the ECDC. Germany, the Netherlands and others are omitted. Spring peak is the highest value from March and April, except for Hungary where data collection began in May. Current patients in hospitals reflect the most recent available data.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the continent is still less than half of the peak in March and April, but it is rising steadily each week, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. People across much of Europe — including larger countries like France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those [in the United States](https:\/\/covidtracking.com\/data\/charts\/us-currently-hospitalized).\n\nBruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the center, said he was concerned that some of the worst-hit countries now — including the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria — were not as affected this spring, and may not have expanded their hospital capacity or intensive care units.\n\n“The signals were all there in September,” said Mr. Ciancio. “At this point it’s very important that all member states prepare their hospitals to deal with the increase in demand that is coming.”\n\nHospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. But infection figures depend heavily on each country’s testing capacity, while seriously ill people tend to enter hospitals whether they have been tested for the virus or not.\n\nEurope’s current wave of infection is due in part to the relative normalcy it experienced this summer. Unlike the United States, where the epidemic rose to a second peak in July and a [third peak this month](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/15\/us\/coronavirus-cases-us-surge.html), travelers [moved around Europe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/09\/world\/europe\/eu-coronavirus-travel-rules.html), college students [returned to campus](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/06\/world\/europe\/virus-UK-universities.html) and many large gatherings resumed, all while the virus kept spreading.\n\nNow hospitals are scrambling to prepare for an onrush of Covid-19 patients, at a time when bed and intensive care capacity will already be under strain during the winter flu season.\n\n### Europe’s Second Wave\n#### Hospitalized Covid-19 patients per 100,000 people\nFeb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 10 20 30 40 50 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Luxembourg Norway Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia United Kingdom\n\nIn Poland, the government converted the country’s largest stadium into a [temporary field hospital](https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/10\/19\/poland-will-convert-warsaw-stadium-into-temporary-covid-19-hospital) with room for 500 patients. Hospitals in France, especially in the Paris area, have started to postpone non-emergency surgeries, while others have called back staff on leave. More than one-fifth of Spain’s intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, and in Madrid, that figure is closer to 40 percent.\n\nAnd in the Czech Republic — where the current hospitalization rate surpasses the worst period in Britain — physicians are worried about a shortage of staff. “In some regions, about 10 percent of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine,” said Petr Smejkal, the chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the [Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine](https:\/\/www.ikem.cz\/en\/) in Prague.\n\nMr. Smejkal said the country also lacks specialty workers like respiratory therapists, and that most nurses are not trained to operate ventilators. “I am most worried about personnel, and keeping a safe ratio of doctors to patients and nurses to patients,” he added.\n\nThere is hope that no place will experience the [level of death](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/06\/10\/world\/coronavirus-history.html) that Bergamo, Italy, New York City and Madrid suffered this spring. How the virus spreads is better understood now, and treatments have improved, giving sick people a [better chance of survival](https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/10\/20\/925441975\/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates). Testing has expanded across Europe, allowing countries to identify outbreaks earlier, when they are easier to contain.\n\nBut it is unclear how successful those control measures will be, or if [political resistance](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/15\/world\/europe\/uk-coronavirus-brexit-boris-johnson.html) and [collective exhaustion](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/17\/us\/coronavirus-pandemic-fatigue.html) over new restrictions will make it harder to get the virus under control for a second time.\n\nDeaths in most of Europe remain at a fraction of the levels seen in the spring. But they have ticked slowly upwards over the last several weeks, and they tend to lag hospitalizations by about a month. 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Boilerpipe Text	Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, New York Times database of cases LONDON — Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital. The numbers of Covid-19 patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate. As new cases of the virus began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were initially spared the mass influx of patients they weathered earlier this spring. Some suggested that the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded. But a second wave of serious illness is here, new data released on Thursday shows, making it clear that the pandemic is still dangerous and that adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year. Where People Are Sick From the Coronavirus Country Patients in hospital per 100,000 Spring peak % of spring peak Czech Republic 35 4 882% Spain 29 Belgium 22 50 43% Bulgaria 21 6 381% Poland 21 9 230% Hungary 18 7 249% France 16 48 34% 21 European countries 14 31 45% Italy 13 55 24% Slovenia 13 6 226% Croatia 12 9 136% Slovakia 12 4 285% United States 11 18 61% Portugal 11 13 83% United Kingdom 10 30 33% Austria 8 12 68% Ireland 6 18 31% Luxembourg 5 35 15% Latvia 4 2 163% Estonia 3 12 23% Denmark 2 9 23% Finland 1 4 23% Norway 1 6 10% Iceland 0.3 12 2% Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control . Hospital data for Europe includes 21 countries that report daily hospital occupancy data to the ECDC. Germany, the Netherlands and others are omitted. Spring peak is the highest value from March and April, except for Hungary where data collection began in May. Current patients in hospitals reflect the most recent available data. The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the continent is still less than half of the peak in March and April, but it is rising steadily each week, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. People across much of Europe — including larger countries like France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those in the United States . Bruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the center, said he was concerned that some of the worst-hit countries now — including the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria — were not as affected this spring, and may not have expanded their hospital capacity or intensive care units. “The signals were all there in September,” said Mr. Ciancio. “At this point it’s very important that all member states prepare their hospitals to deal with the increase in demand that is coming.” Hospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. But infection figures depend heavily on each country’s testing capacity, while seriously ill people tend to enter hospitals whether they have been tested for the virus or not. Europe’s current wave of infection is due in part to the relative normalcy it experienced this summer. Unlike the United States, where the epidemic rose to a second peak in July and a third peak this month , travelers moved around Europe , college students returned to campus and many large gatherings resumed, all while the virus kept spreading. Now hospitals are scrambling to prepare for an onrush of Covid-19 patients, at a time when bed and intensive care capacity will already be under strain during the winter flu season. Europe’s Second Wave Hospitalized Covid-19 patients per 100,000 people Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 10 20 30 40 50 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Luxembourg Norway Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia United Kingdom In Poland, the government converted the country’s largest stadium into a temporary field hospital with room for 500 patients. Hospitals in France, especially in the Paris area, have started to postpone non-emergency surgeries, while others have called back staff on leave. More than one-fifth of Spain’s intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, and in Madrid, that figure is closer to 40 percent. And in the Czech Republic — where the current hospitalization rate surpasses the worst period in Britain — physicians are worried about a shortage of staff. “In some regions, about 10 percent of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine,” said Petr Smejkal, the chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague. Mr. Smejkal said the country also lacks specialty workers like respiratory therapists, and that most nurses are not trained to operate ventilators. “I am most worried about personnel, and keeping a safe ratio of doctors to patients and nurses to patients,” he added. There is hope that no place will experience the level of death that Bergamo, Italy, New York City and Madrid suffered this spring. How the virus spreads is better understood now, and treatments have improved, giving sick people a better chance of survival . Testing has expanded across Europe, allowing countries to identify outbreaks earlier, when they are easier to contain. But it is unclear how successful those control measures will be, or if political resistance and collective exhaustion over new restrictions will make it harder to get the virus under control for a second time. Deaths in most of Europe remain at a fraction of the levels seen in the spring. But they have ticked slowly upwards over the last several weeks, and they tend to lag hospitalizations by about a month. Experts say additional increases in deaths are likely over the next couple of weeks. Covid-19 deaths are slowly ticking back up Deaths per one million people over the last 14 days Albania March 1 Oct. 21 Last two weeks Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Moldova Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland U.K. Ukraine Source: The New York Times. Shows countries with at least 1 million people.
Markdown	[Skip to content](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/world/europe/europe-hospitals-covid.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/world/europe/europe-hospitals-covid.html#site-index) Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation Search [Europe](https://www.nytimes.com/section/world/europe) [Log in](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252Finteractive%252F2020%252F10%252F22%252Fworld%252Feurope%252Feurope-hospitals-covid.html&asset=masthead) [Today’s Paper](https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper) [Europe](https://www.nytimes.com/section/world/europe)\\|Where Europe’s Second Wave Is Filling Up Hospitals https://nyti.ms/3jnbomn - Share full article - 0 Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/world/europe/europe-hospitals-covid.html#after-top) # Where Europe’s Second Wave Is Filling Up Hospitals By [Allison McCann](https://www.nytimes.com/by/allison-mccann) and [Lauren Leatherby](https://www.nytimes.com/by/lauren-leatherby)Oct. 22, 2020 - Share full article - 0 ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) Cases per 100,000 in the last 14 days 100 200 400 800 Belgium has postponed all non-essential hospital work to deal with the influx of new Covid-19 patients. Finland Norway Estonia Sweden Belarus Ireland U.K. Poland Germany Ukraine Hungary France Romania Italy Serbia Spain Greece About a fifth of Spain’s ICU beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients. Cases are rising faster in the Czech Republic than anywhere else in Europe. Physicians there fear a shortage of medical staff. ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) Belgium has postponed all non-essential hospital work to deal with the influx of new Covid-19 patients. Cases per 100,000 in the last 14 days 100 200 400 800 Finland Norway Estonia Sweden Latvia Lithuania Denmark Belarus Ireland U.K. Poland Germany Ukraine Hungary France Romania Croatia Italy Serbia Bulgaria Spain Greece Portugal About a fifth of Spain’s ICU beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients. Cases are rising faster in the Czech Republic than anywhere else in Europe. Physicians there fear a shortage of medical staff. ![](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2020/10/16/europe-hospitals/6a812e340a0f29d986bb04ae4c450d04b3d5329d/top-map-900.png) Cases per 100,000 in the last 14 days Belgium has postponed all non-essential hospital work to deal with the influx of new Covid-19 patients. 100 200 400 800 Finland Norway Estonia Sweden Latvia Lithuania Denmark Belarus Ireland U.K. Poland Cases are rising faster in the Czech Republic than anywhere else in Europe. Physicians there fear a shortage of medical staff. Germany Ukraine Hungary France Romania Croatia Italy Serbia Bulgaria About a fifth of Spain’s ICU beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients. Spain Greece Portugal ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) Belgium has postponed all non-essential hospital work to deal with the influx of new Covid-19 patients. Cases per 100,000 in the last 14 days 100 200 400 800 Finland Norway Estonia Sweden Latvia Lithuania Denmark Belarus Ireland U.K. Netherlands Poland Germany Cases are rising faster in the Czech Republic than anywhere else in Europe. Physicians there fear a shortage of medical staff. Ukraine Belgium Czech republic Austria France Hungary Romania Switzerland Croatia Italy Serbia Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria About a fifth of Spain’s ICU beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients. Spain Greece Portugal Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, New York Times database of cases LONDON — Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital. The numbers of Covid-19 patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate. As new cases of the virus began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were [initially spared](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/world/europe/covid-europe-hospitals-lockdowns.html) the mass influx of patients they weathered earlier this spring. [Some suggested](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/18/mutated-coronavirus-may-be-less-deadly-expert-suggests) that the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded. But a second wave of serious illness is here, [new data](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19) released on Thursday shows, making it clear that the pandemic is still dangerous and that adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year. ### Where People Are Sick From the Coronavirus \| Country \| Patients in hospital per 100,000 \| Spring peak \| % of spring peak \| \|---\|---\|---\|---\| \| Czech Republic \| 35 \| 4 \| 882% \| \| Spain \| 29 \| \| \| \| Belgium \| 22 \| 50 \| 43% \| \| Bulgaria \| 21 \| 6 \| 381% \| \| Poland \| 21 \| 9 \| 230% \| \| Hungary \| 18 \| 7 \| 249% \| \| France \| 16 \| 48 \| 34% \| \| 21 European countries \| 14 \| 31 \| 45% \| \| Italy \| 13 \| 55 \| 24% \| \| Slovenia \| 13 \| 6 \| 226% \| \| Croatia \| 12 \| 9 \| 136% \| \| Slovakia \| 12 \| 4 \| 285% \| \| United States \| 11 \| 18 \| 61% \| \| Portugal \| 11 \| 13 \| 83% \| \| United Kingdom \| 10 \| 30 \| 33% \| \| Austria \| 8 \| 12 \| 68% \| \| Ireland \| 6 \| 18 \| 31% \| \| Luxembourg \| 5 \| 35 \| 15% \| \| Latvia \| 4 \| 2 \| 163% \| \| Estonia \| 3 \| 12 \| 23% \| \| Denmark \| 2 \| 9 \| 23% \| \| Finland \| 1 \| 4 \| 23% \| \| Norway \| 1 \| 6 \| 10% \| \| Iceland \| 0\.3 \| 12 \| 2% \| Source: [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19). Hospital data for Europe includes 21 countries that report daily hospital occupancy data to the ECDC. Germany, the Netherlands and others are omitted. Spring peak is the highest value from March and April, except for Hungary where data collection began in May. Current patients in hospitals reflect the most recent available data. The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the continent is still less than half of the peak in March and April, but it is rising steadily each week, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. People across much of Europe — including larger countries like France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those [in the United States](https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-currently-hospitalized). Bruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the center, said he was concerned that some of the worst-hit countries now — including the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria — were not as affected this spring, and may not have expanded their hospital capacity or intensive care units. “The signals were all there in September,” said Mr. Ciancio. “At this point it’s very important that all member states prepare their hospitals to deal with the increase in demand that is coming.” Hospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. But infection figures depend heavily on each country’s testing capacity, while seriously ill people tend to enter hospitals whether they have been tested for the virus or not. Europe’s current wave of infection is due in part to the relative normalcy it experienced this summer. Unlike the United States, where the epidemic rose to a second peak in July and a [third peak this month](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/15/us/coronavirus-cases-us-surge.html), travelers [moved around Europe](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/world/europe/eu-coronavirus-travel-rules.html), college students [returned to campus](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/europe/virus-UK-universities.html) and many large gatherings resumed, all while the virus kept spreading. Now hospitals are scrambling to prepare for an onrush of Covid-19 patients, at a time when bed and intensive care capacity will already be under strain during the winter flu season. ### Europe’s Second Wave #### Hospitalized Covid-19 patients per 100,000 people Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 10 20 30 40 50 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Luxembourg Norway Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia United Kingdom Source: [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19) In Poland, the government converted the country’s largest stadium into a [temporary field hospital](https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/19/poland-will-convert-warsaw-stadium-into-temporary-covid-19-hospital) with room for 500 patients. Hospitals in France, especially in the Paris area, have started to postpone non-emergency surgeries, while others have called back staff on leave. More than one-fifth of Spain’s intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, and in Madrid, that figure is closer to 40 percent. And in the Czech Republic — where the current hospitalization rate surpasses the worst period in Britain — physicians are worried about a shortage of staff. “In some regions, about 10 percent of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine,” said Petr Smejkal, the chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the [Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine](https://www.ikem.cz/en/) in Prague. Mr. Smejkal said the country also lacks specialty workers like respiratory therapists, and that most nurses are not trained to operate ventilators. “I am most worried about personnel, and keeping a safe ratio of doctors to patients and nurses to patients,” he added. There is hope that no place will experience the [level of death](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/world/coronavirus-history.html) that Bergamo, Italy, New York City and Madrid suffered this spring. How the virus spreads is better understood now, and treatments have improved, giving sick people a [better chance of survival](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/20/925441975/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates). Testing has expanded across Europe, allowing countries to identify outbreaks earlier, when they are easier to contain. But it is unclear how successful those control measures will be, or if [political resistance](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/world/europe/uk-coronavirus-brexit-boris-johnson.html) and [collective exhaustion](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/coronavirus-pandemic-fatigue.html) over new restrictions will make it harder to get the virus under control for a second time. Deaths in most of Europe remain at a fraction of the levels seen in the spring. But they have ticked slowly upwards over the last several weeks, and they tend to lag hospitalizations by about a month. Experts say additional increases in deaths are likely over the next couple of weeks. ### Covid-19 deaths are slowly ticking back up #### Deaths per one million people over the last 14 days Albania March 1 Oct. 21 Last two weeks Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Moldova Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland U.K. Ukraine Source: The New York Times. Shows countries with at least 1 million people. Map administrative boundaries: EuroGeographics, UN–FAO, Turkstat, Kartverket. Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Statistics Portugal. OS data: Crown, copyright and database right 2020. Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Additional reporting by Tolek Magdziarz from Warsaw, Constant Méheut from Paris and Raphael Minder from Madrid. 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Readable Markdown	Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, New York Times database of cases LONDON — Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital. The numbers of Covid-19 patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate. As new cases of the virus began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were [initially spared](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/world/europe/covid-europe-hospitals-lockdowns.html) the mass influx of patients they weathered earlier this spring. [Some suggested](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/18/mutated-coronavirus-may-be-less-deadly-expert-suggests) that the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded. But a second wave of serious illness is here, [new data](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19) released on Thursday shows, making it clear that the pandemic is still dangerous and that adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year. ### Where People Are Sick From the Coronavirus \| Country \| Patients in hospital per 100,000 \| Spring peak \| % of spring peak \| \|---\|---\|---\|---\| \| Czech Republic \| 35 \| 4 \| 882% \| \| Spain \| 29 \| \| \| \| Belgium \| 22 \| 50 \| 43% \| \| Bulgaria \| 21 \| 6 \| 381% \| \| Poland \| 21 \| 9 \| 230% \| \| Hungary \| 18 \| 7 \| 249% \| \| France \| 16 \| 48 \| 34% \| \| 21 European countries \| 14 \| 31 \| 45% \| \| Italy \| 13 \| 55 \| 24% \| \| Slovenia \| 13 \| 6 \| 226% \| \| Croatia \| 12 \| 9 \| 136% \| \| Slovakia \| 12 \| 4 \| 285% \| \| United States \| 11 \| 18 \| 61% \| \| Portugal \| 11 \| 13 \| 83% \| \| United Kingdom \| 10 \| 30 \| 33% \| \| Austria \| 8 \| 12 \| 68% \| \| Ireland \| 6 \| 18 \| 31% \| \| Luxembourg \| 5 \| 35 \| 15% \| \| Latvia \| 4 \| 2 \| 163% \| \| Estonia \| 3 \| 12 \| 23% \| \| Denmark \| 2 \| 9 \| 23% \| \| Finland \| 1 \| 4 \| 23% \| \| Norway \| 1 \| 6 \| 10% \| \| Iceland \| 0\.3 \| 12 \| 2% \| Source: [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19). Hospital data for Europe includes 21 countries that report daily hospital occupancy data to the ECDC. Germany, the Netherlands and others are omitted. Spring peak is the highest value from March and April, except for Hungary where data collection began in May. Current patients in hospitals reflect the most recent available data. The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the continent is still less than half of the peak in March and April, but it is rising steadily each week, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. People across much of Europe — including larger countries like France, Italy, Poland and Spain — are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those [in the United States](https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-currently-hospitalized). Bruno Ciancio, the head of disease surveillance at the center, said he was concerned that some of the worst-hit countries now — including the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria — were not as affected this spring, and may not have expanded their hospital capacity or intensive care units. “The signals were all there in September,” said Mr. Ciancio. “At this point it’s very important that all member states prepare their hospitals to deal with the increase in demand that is coming.” Hospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. But infection figures depend heavily on each country’s testing capacity, while seriously ill people tend to enter hospitals whether they have been tested for the virus or not. Europe’s current wave of infection is due in part to the relative normalcy it experienced this summer. Unlike the United States, where the epidemic rose to a second peak in July and a [third peak this month](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/15/us/coronavirus-cases-us-surge.html), travelers [moved around Europe](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/world/europe/eu-coronavirus-travel-rules.html), college students [returned to campus](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/europe/virus-UK-universities.html) and many large gatherings resumed, all while the virus kept spreading. Now hospitals are scrambling to prepare for an onrush of Covid-19 patients, at a time when bed and intensive care capacity will already be under strain during the winter flu season. ### Europe’s Second Wave #### Hospitalized Covid-19 patients per 100,000 people Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 10 20 30 40 50 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Luxembourg Norway Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia United Kingdom In Poland, the government converted the country’s largest stadium into a [temporary field hospital](https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/19/poland-will-convert-warsaw-stadium-into-temporary-covid-19-hospital) with room for 500 patients. Hospitals in France, especially in the Paris area, have started to postpone non-emergency surgeries, while others have called back staff on leave. More than one-fifth of Spain’s intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients, and in Madrid, that figure is closer to 40 percent. And in the Czech Republic — where the current hospitalization rate surpasses the worst period in Britain — physicians are worried about a shortage of staff. “In some regions, about 10 percent of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine,” said Petr Smejkal, the chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the [Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine](https://www.ikem.cz/en/) in Prague. Mr. Smejkal said the country also lacks specialty workers like respiratory therapists, and that most nurses are not trained to operate ventilators. “I am most worried about personnel, and keeping a safe ratio of doctors to patients and nurses to patients,” he added. There is hope that no place will experience the [level of death](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/world/coronavirus-history.html) that Bergamo, Italy, New York City and Madrid suffered this spring. How the virus spreads is better understood now, and treatments have improved, giving sick people a [better chance of survival](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/20/925441975/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates). Testing has expanded across Europe, allowing countries to identify outbreaks earlier, when they are easier to contain. But it is unclear how successful those control measures will be, or if [political resistance](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/world/europe/uk-coronavirus-brexit-boris-johnson.html) and [collective exhaustion](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/coronavirus-pandemic-fatigue.html) over new restrictions will make it harder to get the virus under control for a second time. Deaths in most of Europe remain at a fraction of the levels seen in the spring. But they have ticked slowly upwards over the last several weeks, and they tend to lag hospitalizations by about a month. Experts say additional increases in deaths are likely over the next couple of weeks. ### Covid-19 deaths are slowly ticking back up #### Deaths per one million people over the last 14 days Albania March 1 Oct. 21 Last two weeks Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Moldova Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland U.K. Ukraine Source: The New York Times. Shows countries with at least 1 million people.
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